Is WoW not working on my laptop b/c it's a Gateway Vista Business?
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Okay so i’ve wasted a whole day on research…these are my conclusions….
World of Warcraft doesn’t work on my laptop because:
1. My graphics card (those, i assume, come in laptops?) doesn’t support WoW (Card name: Mobile Intel(R) 965 Express Chipset Family
Manufacturer: Intel Corporation
Chip type: Mobile Intel(R) 965 Express Chipset Family
DAC type: Internal
Display Memory: 358 MB
Dedicated Memory: 0 MB
Shared Memory: 358 MB)
2. My laptop is from Gateway…i hear they’re pretty screwy.
3. My laptop is a Windows Vista Business (6.0, build 6001), and i understand that i might require a special, Gamer laptop, not a plain, business one?
4. My Windows is (apparently) a fake one–some guy "fixed" my laptop by installing a fake windows, is what i can gather from all the pop-ups over the months :/ (which reminds me–is this even legal?!)
5. i downloaded the game off the internet, vs. a CD.
Kay, so: i downloaded the free trial, yes? and that alone took one day, two nights, nonstop. a buddy who downloaded his from the CD (free trial + extensions) said mine took longer than it did him. after that i tried running it, everything was fine, played for 10-15 min, then the screen froze* and i was introduced to the blue screen of death, followed by a restart of the comp (this then happened every time i tried to play, w/ no gaming time). the technical error code i recieved didn’t match with any on their trouble-shooting forum (STOP 0×00000116). googled it, nothing useful came up. then i updated a random intel driver (Intel® Graphics Media Accelerator Driver for Windows Vista 32). now it just gives me a black screen*…and the mouse, which i can move. i press the start button to get me to my desktop, then right-click and close the window, after which it tells me the driver stopped and recovered successfully.
* this happened only after i clicked "enter world" after signing in and choosing my character.
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most laptops if not designed for gamming cant handle games like WoW,the memory needed to process the graphics is to large for what the laptops come with(which is mostley likley why you get a BSOD) you chip is being over used and its crashing cause it is unable to handle the graphics requirements.you need for games like that a dedicated video card with around 512 ddr3 mb video ram or around 1gb ddr3
YO DAWG, I HERD U LIEK WOW, SO PUT UR WOW IN A FORKLIFT SO U CAN LEVEL WHILE U LEVEL !!!!!!!!!!
Exact Model number please
& M–6846 >> now your graphics is Intel GMA X3100, which is garbage and no, it does not qualify for Sims 3 even at low settings
no, vista business is not to blame